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. 2019 Jun 14;28(3):1121–1129. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-04908-9

Table 3.

Association between responses to the dry mouth numerical rating scale (NRS) and interference with talking, eating and taste

Numerical rating scale (NRS) Talking Eating Taste
β coefficient 0.77 0.57 0.51
Standard error of β coefficient 0.13 0.15 0.16
Spearman’s rank correlation (rs) 0.49 0.34 0.28
p value < 0.001 < 0.001 0.001